Auto-populate android inbox

Question

I am working on an android app to analyze a users message history.

One major issue is that i need a bank of messages to work with, ideally over a long period of time.

I have found how to send messages to the emulator via telnet but this is A. slow and B. messages are time stamped on arrival.

I would like suggestions on how to programmatically generate a pseudo-random inbox of say, 300 messages (content doesn't matter at this point, but i need a range of times and dates).

Update: As an idea, would it be possible to somehow load my phones (1.5 android) message history to the emulator?

Do you really need real messages? You can easily to generate base and work with it. — Jin35, Feb 04 '12 at 13:46
no they dont need to be real at all. all i need is a pile of messages with a range of dates and times. — TrewTzu, Feb 04 '12 at 13:55
Do you want to sync the Messages from default to your app...?? You need to use ContentProvder to fetch the messages details — Arpit Garg, Feb 04 '12 at 19:46
Here is a simple message reader that prints the number and body to the log. — TrewTzu, Feb 06 '12 at 09:36
What i need is some thing to GENERATE messages to later be readed — TrewTzu, Feb 06 '12 at 09:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 04 '13 at 04:33

If you want to track and analyse the message history in your app, you can easily use a content provider for accessing SMS messages. But it's not documented in the public SDK.

If you use ContentResolver.query() with a Uri of content://sms you should be able to access these messages on 1.5(ECLAIR) and later version.

Please go through the link for details how to do all that:Referal for Content Provider

Also before beginning on Content Provider, please visit and understand the Android Developer Blog. Once: Android Developer Blog Warns to do that..

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Install Android Market on your emulator (see here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/21862/how-to-enable-the-android-market-in-the-google-android-emulator/)

Install an SMS backup app such as SMS Backup And Restore on both your real device and emulator, use it to back up messages from your real device to a file, transfer the file to desktop (email, bluetooth or whatever), put it on your emulator's virtual SD card (see: Manually put files to Android emulator SD card), use the same app to restore your messages on the emulator.

Also, to manually put stuff into the db (/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db), try using this tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/ or just write a script using sqlite3 to stuff teh db with fake data, here's another relevant thread on accessing the db: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/11619/android-read-recent-sms-messages-from-command-line

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 09 '12 at 18:19

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the sms db is stored at /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db . Copy this from your phone onto the sdk. Or you could populate the db once and take a backup and restore it everytime.

answered Feb 09 '12 at 18:19

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